The Adventures of Travel Penguin

So a year ago I posted the following goals: New Year’s Resolutions for 2015 ·          Eat better, focus on quality and taste · ...

It is the time of the year to look back at all we have done and say THANK YOU to all that have helped along the way.  I know I will forget...

The Roman Gate in Trier Germany Time keeps moving forward, life goes on, things change, work needs to be done, pleasure and play lay bef...

Okay, let me admit to something I hate.  There are not a lot of things I hate, there are more that I dislike, find annoying or simpl...

I just received an email from the director of my department at work.  He went out for a Christmas day bike ride and "wiped out"...

Through the course of the year, things accumulate on my desks.  The desk in the office was cleaned off last week for a meeting, cleaning ...

We made it to the day after Christmas, Boxing Day for our friends and family in the ancestral homeland.  The small talk question of...

Merry Christmas! I hope you find peace and happiness on this special day.   The ornaments above were on my parent's first...

I a couple of weeks ago, I posted video of test crashing a drone in the living room. This was an early Christmas present to myself, Amazo...

Dear Family, Friends, Readers, Lurkers, Strangers, It is the time of the year for silly Christmas letters, sort of a year in review, and wh...

Each of us is unique, we all have a story to tell, we all have desires, and yet we keep too much bottled up inside, afraid to tell the w...

Dear Santa, It has been a while since my last letter, like 50 years.  I hope I have helped out a little along the years with unexpecte...

I grew up on a funny sort of a farm, my father and grandfather kept bees - lots and lots and lots of bees. When I was a teenager, I was ...

This is the Potomac River, headed outbound on the Metro (Subway) bridge toward the Pentagon.  The old railroad bridge, and it is well ove...

We rent cars, we rent boats, pilots rent airplanes, why not rent a camel? The Camel above is a rental unit, available by the hour, by t...

An old stadium in Rome, at night Waiting for the Pope on a Sunday morning in St Peters Square in Rome Some of you may have noticed ...